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/sˈitəd/ /sˈitɪd/ Listen

verb

Seat v. t. (past & past part. seated; pres. part. seating)

To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat one's self. "The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate."

To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle. "Thus high... is King Richard seated." "They had seated themselves in New Guiana."

To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church.

To fix; to set firm. "From their foundations, loosening to and fro, They plucked the seated hills."

To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country. (Obs.)

To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.

Seat v. i. To rest; to lie down. (Obs.)

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"Seated" Quotes from Famous Books

... make slight halts at Toulon, at Marseilles, and at Montpellier, and despatch thence, by way of thanks for the splendid fetes given by the local authorities, a salvo of homage to the Great King at Versailles. Madame des Ursins was seated in the royal litter, at the Queen's side, and everywhere had her share of the honours rendered to that princess in the various cities of France and Italy. At length the Spanish frontier was reached, and there the Piedmontese ladies, to the great regret of Marie-Louise and their own, were ...

— Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Sutherland Menzies

... so expressive of disdain, that I felt the short hair rising along the back of my neck in antagonism. When he heard us, Woods turned with contemptuous deliberation, but when he caught sight of the dumb misery on Jim's face, his own turned a dull crimson. Helen crossed the room and seated herself on the divan, back of which Woods was standing. The whole performance—the place she chose near him, the look she flashed at him as she sat down, showed so completely which of the men she loved, that my heart sank and ...

— 32 Caliber • Donald McGibeny

... He seated himself between his wife and Madame Morien, whispering to the latter: "Beautiful Tourbillon, my heart is in flames, and I rely upon you to quench them. You must ...

— Frederick the Great and His Court • L. Muhlbach

... she gave one glance at Karl and then moved away from him, and stood beside the table at which she and Millar had been seated. She saw the wild rage stamped on his face, and her woman's intuition made her know that Millar had told him what she had divined he meant. The situation frightened her, and she felt on the point of fleeing from the room or casting ...

— The Devil - A Tragedy of the Heart and Conscience • Joseph O'Brien

... Mr. President, is just a little behind the times. Such a stirring organ as the British Bolshevist should, perhaps, have a more up-to-date correspondent. Will you, Mr. President, request Mr. Beechtree to be seated? I fear I find myself unable to discuss my affairs ...

— Mystery at Geneva - An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings • Rose Macaulay

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